William Auerbach-Levy

William Auerbach-Levy
William Auerbach-Levy

William Auerbach-Levy

American painter, illustrator, and teacher, 1889–1964
BiographyBorn in Belarus, Auerbach-Levy emigrated to the United States in 1894. He studied in New York and Paris and taught at the National Academy of Design. He is best known as a caricaturist, whose send-ups of celebrities appeared in The New Yorker and Vanity Fair, but he also etched sensitive portraits.
Person TypeIndividual
Terms
  • Ossining
  • Rossiya
  • Russia
  • artists
  • illustrators
  • male